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Agenda The issue What is Plone? Why Plone? What can Plone do? NCI-DCEG Experience What is the cost? Who is using Plone? Books

The issue

What is Plone?

Why Plone?

What can Plone do?

NCI-DCEG Experience

What is the cost?

Who is using Plone?

Books

The Issue Large studies that involve multiple disciplines, centers and investigators Goal: to communicate more rapidly with more people Solution: Collaboration Portals using Plone

Large studies that involve multiple disciplines, centers and investigators

Goal: to communicate more rapidly with more people

Solution: Collaboration Portals using Plone

What is Plone? Open source content management system (CMS) Freely downloadable software under a general public license (GPL) - No license fee required - Download from http://plone.org Plone is standard - follows standards for usability and accessibility; compliant with WAI-AAA & US Section 508 Widely tested in browsers on multiple platforms

Open source content management system (CMS)

Freely downloadable software under a general public license (GPL) - No license fee required - Download from http://plone.org

NCI-DCEG Experience Collaboration portal features: - group distribution lists - message board - calendar with the capacity to embed meeting agendas and minutes - serves as a repository for many essential documents, such as protocols and published papers - allows roles to be assigned to users example: manager, reviewer or member

Cons: - Customer support is weaker than for commercial products - Security is complex - Content publishing is harder without knowledge of HTML

What was the cost? Require a server – Unix, Windows or Solaris Two weeks of programmer time that included: - requirements analysis - set up of the server - set up of a template portal site - training of users The approximate cost was $10,000 (excluding the cost of the server)

Require a server – Unix, Windows or Solaris

Two weeks of programmer time that included: - requirements analysis - set up of the server - set up of a template portal site - training of users

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